#Viral

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

So many treatments for COVID and so much confusion. Why? Does plasma work or not? Will steroids be life saving or life threatening?This thread explains why this “confusion” is the

Sally Rugg

sallyrugg

To the small group of cis women worried about sharing spaces with trans women: you’ve almost certainly already been doing so for most of ur life. The online trend of

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 and initial evidence of antigenic evolution, I've seen comparisons here to seasonal influenza and its rate of evolution. In this thread, I want to ground

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Two months ago, I summarized the status of people w/ #SARSCoV2 infections who don't manifest symptoms (asymptomatics) vs presymptomatics https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1270178612457598976With so much more we've learned since,

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

In contrast to antibody-mediated immunity, T-cell response is extremely long-lived. For example, people infected in 2003 with SARS-1 still mount an immune response to #SARSCoV2 17 years later.(10/13) While there

flyonthewall

onthewall_fly

Thoughts on infectious dose and symptom severity... a thread.There is some evidence that lower viral dose leads to less severe symptoms in animal models.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1277210360118902785?s=201/ You might be thin

Felicity Morse

FelicityMorse

I had 'Long Covid' or chronic fatigue aged 13-20. I had about two years off school, for some of that time I couldn't walk, would crawl to the toilet. I

TNK 🙂

TTBikeFit

“The Fable of the Ant and the Ct40 PCR Test”Or, an easy way to understand the problems with and damage done by PCR tests for COVID-19 You've probably heard of

Lewis Wiltshire

LewisWiltshire

This is currently happening again, this time with some guy who says food poverty is idleness. Seems every liberal on Twitter has rebroadcast his thoughts with a comment intended to

rogert malthus

robertmathisok

Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the

Ryan Devereaux

rdevro

Just had a conversation with a young guy in Crown Heights about the fireworks situation in Brooklyn that might be helpful to folks trying to understand what’s happening — the

Arieh Kovler

ariehkovler

Israel vaccine update: Of 668,100 over-60s who had their second Pfizer jab more than a week ago, 473 have tested positive for the virus. Of them, 38 are hospitalised, 14

JessMet

CJEMetcalf

This pandemic means we've learned so much (it would have been preferable, of course, to learn these things almost any other way) but we now know fascinating pieces of viral

Dopeink

DopeinkInvest

Novacyt continues to innovate, launching PROmate in conjunction with its Point of Care Q16 & Q32 diagnostic instruments enabling faster, simpler & safe testing solution Novacyt has listened to client

MacKenzie

Smackenziekerr

What I don't understand is that she claims that the #covid virus has been patented. So we cannot patent a virus if it is #natural, that would be nonsense. So

Just An Ordinary Bloke

Unusual_Times

Bradford: covid wave 2Watching the Doctors and Nurses on Channel 4's news in Bradford Royal Infirmary is heartbreaking. They look shellshocked exhausted and helpless.I was born in one of the

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